2 Raleigh-Charlotte Piedmont trains are temporarily suspended. Here’s what we know.
Passengers on two of the six Piedmont trains that run between Raleigh and Charlotte each day will have to choose another one to ride on through mid-July, NC rail officials said.
In a service alert on Twitter on Friday, state rail officials said Piedmont trains 74 and 75 won’t operate from Monday, June 27, through Thursday, July 14.
Track work is to blame for the temporary no-service, officials said.
The good news?
On Monday, July 4, both trains will run as usual, according to NC By Train, the official online page for the N.C. Department of Transportation’s Piedmont and Carolinian trains.
Northbound Train 74 departs Charlotte at 10:30 each morning with stops in Kannapolis, Salisbury, High Point, Greensboro, Burlington, Durham and Cary before arriving in Raleigh at 1:41 p.m.
Southbound Train 75 leaves Raleigh at 10 a.m., with stops in the same seven cities before arriving in Charlotte at 1:10 p.m.
The other four Piedmont trains, also owned and operated by the N.C. Department of Transportation, run daily between the cities at earlier and later times, according to the NCByTrain schedules page.
This story was originally published June 26, 2022 at 6:00 AM.